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QUARTERLY REPORT SOUTH AFRICA LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT (SA-LED)

PROGRAM

1 APRIL – 30 JUNE 2016

DISCLAIMER

The authors’ views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the

United States Agency for International Development or the United States government.

QUARTERLY REPORT SOUTH AFRICA LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT (SA-LED)

PROGRAM

1 APRIL – 30 JUNE 2016

Contract No. AID-674-C-15-00005

Cover photo: Solar Water Heat installations in City of Cape Town. (Credit: Bablu

Singh)

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CONTENTS

Acronyms ............................................................................................................... iii

Executive Summary ................................................................................................ 1

Introduction ............................................................................................................ 2

Research and Analysis ................................................................................................................ 3

LED Project Development ......................................................................................................... 3

Capacity Development............................................................................................................... 3

Enabling Environment ................................................................................................................ 3

Measuring, Reporting, and Verification of GHG Emissions .......................................... 4

Research and Analysis ........................................................................................... 5

LED Project Development ..................................................................................... 8

Quarterly Highlights ................................................................................................................... 8

Summary of Key LED Initiatives ........................................................................................... 13

Capacity Development ........................................................................................ 16

Quarterly Highlights ................................................................................................................ 16

Embedding Technical Expertise ..................................................................................... 16

Capacity Building Programmes with municipalities ............................................... 17

Capacity Building of PMO ................................................................................................ 18

Enabling Environment ......................................................................................... 19


Attendance at Conferences/Meetings ......................................................................... 20

Financial and Regulatory Enabling Environment Efforts ....................................... 21

Opportunities for Collaboration with Development Partners ............................. 22

Technical Support ............................................................................................................... 22

Greenhouse Gas MRV .......................................................................................... 23


Monitoring and Evaluation ................................................................................. 26


Annex A. Definitions ............................................................................................ 29

Annex B. Milestones and Indicators .................................................................. 30

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ACRONYMS

AD Anaerobic Digestion

AB Agama Biogas

CCRWP Climate Change Response White Paper

CD Capacity Development

CHDM Chris Hani District Municipality

CLEER Clean Energy Emission Reduction

CoCT City of Cape Town

CoP Chief of Party

CoT City of Tshwane

DBSA Development Bank of South Africa

DEA Department of Environmental Affairs

DFI Development Finance Institution

DM District Municipality

DNA DNA Economics

DST Department of Science and Technology

EE Energy Efficiency

GDED Gauteng Provincial Department of Economic

Development

GHG Greenhouse Gas

GoSA Government of South Africa

ICF ICF International, Inc.

ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability (International

Council for Local Environmental Initiatives)

IDC Industrial Development Corporation

IDP Integrated Development Plan

IDZ Industrial Development Zone

LED Low Emissions Development

LEDS Low Emission Development Strategies

LES Linkd Environmental Services

LM Local Municipality

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M&E Monitoring and Evaluation

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MRV Measuring, Reporting, and Verification

NGO Non-governmental Organization

NMBMM Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality

PMO Project Management Office

PPA Purchase Power Agreement

PPP Public Private Partnership

PV Photo Voltaic

RE Renewable Energy

RFP Request for Proposal

SA South Africa

SACN South Africa Cities Network

SA-LED South Africa Low Emissions Development Program

SALGA South Africa Local Government Association

SDM Sedibeng District Municipality

SoW Scope of Work

SSEG Small-Scale Embedded Generation

TA Technical Assistance

TGH The Green House

ToC Theory of Change

UDM Umgungundlovu District Municipality

Y1 Project Year 1: 18 May 2015 – 30 September 2016

Y2 Project Year 2: 01 October 2016 – 30 September 2017

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The South Africa Low Emissions Development Program (SA-LED)

had an exciting quarter that included developing municipal capacity

building partnerships with ILembe District Municipality and

Polokwane Local Municipality, developing finance partnerships with

a local finance facility, GIFA, and local commercial banks via a

Green Building Council of South Africa green finance working group,

and developing exciting new projects with eThekwini Municipality

that includes solar PV on its water reservoir sites, and energy

efficiency in its wastewater plants.

During this quarter, significant progress was made with the five research

studies to provide data-driven and best practice approaches to focusing our

financial, technical, and capacity building assistance in Year 2. In addition, SA-

LED finalized several key partnerships to working effectively and strategically

in the LED space, including being asked to sit on the Steering Committee of

the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) Climate Change Flagship

Program to support technical implementation of sustainable waste and

transport projects; partnering with the Gauteng Infrastructure Financing

Agency (GIFA) to coordinate finance and project technical assistance in the

province; partnering with the Eastern Cape Department of Economic

Development, Environment, and Tourism (DEDEAT) on four LED projects and

capacity building; and partnering with the South African Local Government

Association (SALGA) and the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA)

to train councilors and municipal officials in understanding and managing the

energy, water, and greenhouse gas footprint of their building portfolios.


SECTION I.

INTRODUCTION

SA-LED

GOAL

The South Africa Low Emissions

Development (SA-LED) Program

is a $14.9 million, five-year

USAID-funded initiative aimed

at supporting the Government

of South Africa to achieve its

green growth objectives.

OBJECTIVES

SA-LED is working to strengthen

the capacity of the public sector

to plan, finance, implement, and

report on low emissions

development projects and to

accelerate the adoption of low

emissions technologies in both

the public and private sectors. A

particular focus is to increase

the flow of investments into LED

projects and to increase the size

and quality of the LED project

pipeline.

SECTORS

To support the implementation

of South Africa’s Climate

Change Response Policy, SA-

LED focuses on near-term

priority flagship sectors:

Renewable Energy, Energy

Efficiency and Energy Demand

Management, Waste

Management, and Transport.

PARTNERS

The USAID SA-LED Program was

co-created in conjunction with

the South African Department

of Environmental Affairs (DEA)

and the Department of Science

and Technology (DST).


The USAID South Africa Low Emissions Development Program’s goal is to

support the primary objectives of emissions reductions, LED capacity

development, and LED market development at subnational level through a

technical assistance framework which consists of five broad categories of

interventions.

The five categories of technical assistance interventions described below

illustrate SA-LED’s value add to the LED sector in South Africa.

Communications and Outreach is a crosscutting function that supports the

distribution of lessons learned, training manual development, and knowledge

management across each of the five intervention areas.

RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

The SA-LED team is conducting research to: 1) understand the legal, financial,

and regulatory barriers to LED project implementation; 2) understand LED

capacity constraints in both the public and private sector; 3) understand why

commercial and development banks do not lend meaningfully to subnational

LED projects in South Africa; 4) understand best practice in LED project

development both locally and globally; and 5) understand how the most

effective donors and projects measure and evaluate their low emissions

development activities.

LED PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

The SA-LED team is supporting 14 municipal LED initiatives across each of the

four flagship sectors to unblock projects that face challenges and to provide

technical assistance that will help bring projects to financial close or RFP

award. Additional interventions include: conducting feasibility assessments;

mobilizing finance; evaluating LED technology options; and providing legal,

financial, and engineering technical assistance to LED projects.

CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

Based on an initial baseline assessment of LED skills and capacity within

municipalities, SA-LED will embed experts and conduct formal training with

municipal partners in addition to implementing projects together in a

learning-by-doing LED project implementation approach. The program will

also use peer-to-peer learning and integrate LED into municipal development

plans.

ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

SA-LED will help create an enabling environment that will institutionally

support LED efforts across local, provincial, and national government. Support


will be provided in enhancing existing municipal networks, government

initiatives, and industry association efforts. SA-LED will further provide

technical and financial support to industry and government in setting new

standards for emerging technologies, supporting the development of a more

cost-effective and simpler tool for reporting GHG emissions from LED projects,

and in supporting the development of new LED funds and tools to streamline

LED project development.

Three key components of SA-LED’s enabling environment activities will be: (i)

to develop a financial framework that coordinates private and public sector

funding and financial assistance to LED projects; (ii) the development of a

vertical LED/National cooperative mechanism that provides tactical and

focused national and provincial support to local municipal LED projects; and

(iii) leverages the input from SA-LED’s senior governmental officials on its

Advisory Committee to keep SA-LED relevant to national government efforts

in the low emissions space.

MEASURING, REPORTING, AND VERIFICATION OF GHG EMISSIONS

SA-LED will support municipalities to perform project-level greenhouse gas

emissions analysis, using USAID’s CLEER Tools developed by consortium

partner ICF International where applicable, and to articulate the co-benefits of

LED projects. In addition, the program will develop MRV reports and support

local emissions GHG reporting.


SECTION II.

RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

During the third quarter the SA-LED consortium partners made significant

progress with the research studies. DNA Economics, The Green House and ICF

International submitted their final draft reports in time on 30th June 2016.

These research reports will in due course be approved for distribution by

USAID to be shared publically with all relevant stakeholders and partners in

the LED sector in South Africa. Progress against the research studies was as

follows:

1. The Global LED best practice and international case studies – this

research provided a detailed analysis of global LED efforts and a case study

document that aims to inform the SA-LED team of the challenges, lessons

learned, and innovation regarding implementation of LED projects

globally. The research focused on LED Project Development, Finance,

Capacity Building, Co-Benefits, Monitoring and Evaluation, Subnational

GHG Analysis and Vertical-LED Integration. With regards to the case

studies, an initial assessment of numerous case studies was carried out and

from consultations and interviews with experts, eight case studies were

chosen for a more in-depth analysis. The case studies were reviewed

against a number of criteria including – relevance to the context of the SA-

LED program’s activities, significant applicability to at least one of the SA-

LED focus areas and sufficient level of detail about the LED activity

undertaken.

ICF concluded that the common themes for successful LED activities are:

Strong Drivers - Policies and regulations exist that demonstrate top-

down support and can be leveraged to support LED.

Integration into Development Priorities - LED activities are

mainstreamed to achieve scale.

Co-benefits - Articulating multiple benefits can build strong buy-in

from a broad set of champions.

Clear Institutional Arrangements - Clear roles and responsibilities

institutionalize LED; autonomous non-governmental organizations

can play leading roles.

Targeted and Strategic Capacity Building - Capacity is built within

an organization, targeting specific barriers, ensures sustainability.

LED Finance - Implementation will require solutions to address

access to finance.

Robust Data - Minimize information barriers and ensure data are

sufficient for decision-making.


This research was undertaken by ICF and is at a stage of finalization with a

final report being submitted on the 31st July 2016.

2. South African LED market study - The intention of this research was to

ensure that SA-LED’s technical assistance approach is data-driven,

leverages best practice, supports what is working in the South African LED

market, and develops solutions in areas where the market is not-

functioning. In addition, the focus was to provide an understanding of the

LED market in South Africa in terms of existing and pipeline projects, the

extent and form of available funding and support, the institutions involved

and the nature of investments in the LED market.

The research generated a number of recommendations regarding the

potential role that the SA-LED Program could play in unlocking the LED

market in South Africa. Specific recommendations will be incorporated into

the Year 2 annual work plan and these include detailed feedback across

the following spheres:

LED Funding.

LED Market Information.

Supplier Credibility.

Municipal Capacity-Building.

Regulatory Barriers.

LED pilots to demonstrate value at municipal level.

Partnerships.

Leveraging existing programs and resources.

Ideal focus areas to target support.

Build awareness of the benefits of LED projects.

The final report for this research will be submitted on 31 July 2016 by DNA

Economics.

3. South Africa LED best practice and case studies – this project was

undertaken by Agama Biogas and Linkd Environmental Services to assess

best practice in LED projects and to provide examples of what is working

and what isn’t in the context of South African municipal projects as well as

private-sector LED projects. This effort is ongoing and it is envisaged that

the report will be finalized by 31 July 2016. Accordingly, research results

are not available at this time.

4. Key blockages in the LED project development cycle – this research

undertaken by Agama Biogas and The Green House had a three-pronged


purpose, i.e. to map the project development cycles for three types of role

players (private developers, municipalities and financiers) identify key

barriers to LED project development and propose avenues for SA-LED to

help overcome the barriers. The project had two components namely an

in-depth literature review and interviews with key experts. The report

provides a good baseline for embarking on further project development

work. The Green House is currently incorporating comments from the team

and peer reviewers on their work. It is expected that they will submit the

final report by mid-August.

5. LED capacity development and needs assessment – this research was

undertaken by Agama Biogas and Linkd, however, the partners

experienced delays due to challenges with setting up interviews with

municipal officials. The interim progress report that was submitted did not

sufficiently address the terms of reference and had be to be resubmitted

based on the comments provided by the PMO on the initial submission.

The contract was modified taking into account delays with interviews

mentioned above and new timelines established. The final report for this

research is due on 31 July 2016

6. Best practice in monitoring and evaluation and co-benefits of LED

projects

The objective of this research was to contribute to an improved

understanding of LED co-benefits and how these benefits can be

monitored and evaluated. This research was undertaken by The

Greenhouse and is at the finalization stage. The final report will be

submitted in mid July 2016.


SECTION III.

LED PROJECT DEVELOPMENT Over the quarter, the SA-LED team continued to provide technical support to

low emissions development projects and to undertake the procurement of

specialists to support the technical and financial implementation of projects.

The aim of supporting the projects outlined below is to gain a representative

experience providing technical assistance to municipalities across municipal

type (metro, district and local municipality) and across climate change flagship

sector (renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste management, and

sustainable transport). This approach will inform the development of a robust

technical assistance framework for rolling out a more structured program of

assistance in the second year. Future projects supported will be based on the

evaluation criteria developed as an outcome of the research. Figure 2 in the

summary of key LED developments provides a geographical representation of

where technical assistance is currently been provided.

QUARTERLY HIGHLIGHTS

1. Sedibeng District Municipality - SA-LED’s consortium partner AGAMA

Biogas (Pty) Ltd. was appointed to provide a technical review of the

feasibility study for waste-to-energy projects in Sedibeng and the West

Rand Municipal Areas which was conducted in 2014. The purpose of the

technical review was to evaluate if it is practical to move forward with a

waste-to-energy project. The main finding of this review was that the

waste incineration project was not financially viable and the proposed

technology is outdated. The Gauteng Infrastructure Financing Agency

(GIFA), who financed the initial feasibility study, was engaged around the

findings and they agreed that the proposed project wasn’t technically and

financially viable. During the quarter, Agama Biogas undertook site specific

studies to inform an action plan for an alternative waste treatment (AWT)

project. The PMO has also engaged the DEA and GIZ who are currently

supporting Emfuleni Local Municipality, one of three local municipalities in

this district, with developing an AWT project, around aligning the approach

taken in solving waste management challenges in this area.

2. Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (NMBMM) - During

the quarter, solar yield analysis was conducted on 30 municipal roofs and a

civil engineering consulting firm is being engaged to conduct an analysis

of the structural integrity of municipal roofs subject to final approval by

the municipality of a list of participating buildings. Three solar developers

have negotiated and signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with

PowerX during the quarter and each developer has also received financial

commitments from private equity partners to commence 100% equity pilot


projects at the 30 kW to 100 kW scale to test the wheeling mechanism, off-

taker arrangement, and municipal leasing contracts. To reiterate, these

projects are piloting a new project approach using a wheeling license to

deliver willing buyer-willing seller, private sector to private sector green

energy and to secure NERSA approval of non-own-use rooftop PV. This

approach will also test a new approach that uses government rooftops for

projects financed and developed by the private sector and projects that

generate significant revenues for municipalities as opposed to a traditional

rooftop PV project that would cost the municipality both customers and

revenues.

These projects will commence in July 2016. SA-LED also made significant

progress working with the USAID Mission in Pretoria and the Development

Credit Authority of USAID to finalize a guarantee for a local finance facility

which will focus on scaling private-sector investment into the rooftop PV

project in NMBMM. SA-LED began discussions with this finance partner to

provide technical assistance to develop pricing for a rooftop PV debt

product as well as a larger technical assistance component to support the

project. It is hoped that the guarantee is in place and a product is

developed so that rooftop PV developers can begin applying for debt in

October.

3. Umgundundlovu District Municipality - A meeting with

Umgundundlovu District Municipality to explore the technical assistance

requirements for the project on anaerobic digestion of agricultural waste

to produce heat, biogas, and/or electricity. A key outcome of the meeting

was the development of a scope of work for a review of the existing

feasibility study with the view to identify specific sites where the anaerobic

digestion projects could be implemented. However, it was later decided

that before committing resources to a bankable feasibility study SA-LED

needs to first find a feedstock supplier who can fully commit to the

development of this project and is willing to sign an agreement to supply

feedstock to the anaerobic digestion plant over a given number of years.

Also needed would be a project developer who can commit to developing

the anaerobic digestion plant. SA-LED could thereafter fund a bankable

feasibility study. The district municipality agreed to this approach and a

workshop with a select few potential feedstock suppliers and SA-LED is

planned for the end of August 2016. At this workshop the PMO will

present the kind of support it would provide to this project. The process

and consultations with the district municipality is ongoing.


4. Eastern Cape

a) Fort Hare/UNIDO biogas project: This is an existing project that already

provides some 180kW power to Fort Hare University (as the main off

taker). However, the bio digester is producing surplus gas and DEDEAT

requested SA-LED to conduct a feasibility study to assess the amount of

gas available to support a fleet of busses. UNIDO is currently supporting

the project, and welcomes SA-LED’s timeous involvement to develop the

much needed and time sensitive feasibility study.

b) Blue Karoo Aquaculture project: The Eastern Cape Department of

Economic Development, Environment and Tourism (DEDEAT) has already

invested in a fish farm in Graaff Reinet that produces cat fish as an

alternative protein source. DEDEAT requested SA-LED to conduct a

feasibility study to assess the potential of the fish waste for potential use

as biogas, and to scale up the project to a financially viable demonstration

aquaculture project in the region.

c) Hoed Point Sewer in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality: This sewer

is currently spilling untreated sewerage into the ocean, and as such is not

complying with appropriate environmental regulation. A feasibility study

was undertaken to ensure compliance and the development of a 1MW bio

digester proposed. The East London IDZ requested SA-LED to provide

strategic transactional advice to revive and update the current feasibility

study.

d) Processing of waste water from schools in Amathlati Local

Municipality: The Eastern Cape DEDEAT treats waste water in schools in

the Amathlati Local Municipality, mainly though the installation of biogas

digesters. The municipality requires technical assistance to roll out the

program to 60 schools. SA-LED will coordinate with GIZ to build on their

significant traction in this sector and support a feasibility study to identify

and assess the replication potential of this model in 3 schools in the area.

e) Chris Hani District Municipality (CHDM) has shown that it is pro-active

in the area of low-emissions development. At its District Climate Change

Summit held in 2011 the municipality recognised the need for all CHDM

Directorates to mainstream Climate Change protocols in the delivery of

services and a Climate Change Strategy was also developed for the

municipality. The municipality has established an Environment and Climate

Change Forum to engage stakeholders on Environment and Climate

Change issues. The readiness of the municipality provides an excellent

opportunity for longer term embedding of technical expertise tied to

project implementation.


Figure 1: Grow out tunnel at Blue Karoo Aquaculture project.

5. Knysna Local Municipality - SA-LED signed a Letter of Engagement with

Knysna Local Municipality to support their sustainable waste management

processes. SA-LED will provide technical assistance in modelling a cost of

service and analysis of waste management services. In addition, SA-LED

will support the municipality to develop a sustainable model to integrate

community contractors into the waste management processes and the

establishment of a garden refuse site. The scope of work for these areas

have been developed.

6. Ethekwini Metropolitan

Municipality - SA-LED and eThekwini

Metropolitan Municipality agreed in

principle to work together to develop

the following low emissions

development projects: (i) University

energy efficiency building retrofit

audits and follow-on energy

efficiency project implementation (ii)

Energy efficiency audits of wastewater

treatment plants; (iii) Ground

mounted photovoltaic systems on top

of municipal reservoirs; and (iv)

Hydroelectric plant development in

the Western Aqueduct – an innovative idea because it harnesses the

potential energy within the municipality’s bulk water infrastructure. It is

envisaged that implementation of technical assistance in all four areas will

commence next quarter.

LED PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

INDICATORS

Indictors 1-5, 11 • 1. No. of LED projects assisted. • 2. No. of individuals with improved

project development capacity. • 3. Value of funds mobilized to

support LED project development. • 4. No. of emissions reductions

analyses completed. • 5. Total projected quantity of GHG

emissions reduced or avoided as a

result of the implementation of

projects supported by SA-LED. • 11. No. of project proposals

supported by SA-LED that include

gender and youth socio-economic

analysis.


7. City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CoT) – A letter of

Engagement was signed with the CoT during the quarter under review with

the intention of providing technical assistance in areas such as the

utilization of renewable energy produced at the Tshwane Energy and Food

Centre; transitioning municipal solid waste projects to bankable stage;

analyzing the implications of introducing renewable energy into the

municipal grid; energy efficiency retrofits of municipal buildings and

conducting a feasibility study for the development of a solar farm.

Discussions and processes to operationalize the letter of engagement are

ongoing.

8. ILembe District Municipality (IDM) – An agreement was reached during

the quarter that SA-LED would support the district municipality with a

technical and an energy efficiency expert to work on integrating LED into

municipal planning, developing LED projects, undertaking an energy audit

of the district municipality’s waste water to propose energy efficiency/

process optimization interventions; and to investigate the potential to

generate energy from the existing WWTW plants. A draft MoU and a letter

introducing SA-LED was sent to the district municipality and the PMO is

awaiting feedback.

9. Polokwane Local Municipality – SA-LED agreed to support the

municipality with the appointment of an Energy Efficiency and Demand

Side Management Coordinator. This position exists on the municipality’s

organogram, however, due to financial constraints the position was not

filled. SA-LED intends to develop the scope of work for the position in

collaboration with the municipality, recruit the coordinator, and sign an

MoU with the municipality. In addition, technical assistance and capacity

building will be provided for the implementation of energy related LED

projects in the municipality.

10. Progress with Facilitation of USAID Development Credit Authority -

SA-LED and the Africa Private Capital Group of USAID have been working

with the USAID Development Credit Authority (DCA) to extend a 50%

partial risk guarantee to an local finance partner to jump start the small

scale renewable energy market - particularly for rooftop photo voltaic (PV)

in South Africa. Without net-metering legislation and a clear regulatory

framework, the guarantee will facilitate the first commercial loans to

private developers of rooftop PV projects in South Africa. During the

quarter, the term sheet for the partial risk guarantee was drafted and the

size of the guarantee increased from $US 20 million to $US 200 million. A

R3 billion facility could have a dramatic impact on the scaling of private-

sector renewable energy development at the subnational level.


SUMMARY OF KEY LED INITIATIVES

Figure 2: Map of South Africa indicating location of LED initiatives


PROVINCE MUNICIPALITY INTERVENTION PROGRESS

Gauteng

Sedibeng District Municipality Review of financial viability of waste incineration project

Agama Biogas completed review and is currently conducting site specific studies to propose an alternative solution

City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CoT)

Utilization of renewable energy Letter of Engagement signed

Eastern Cape

Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality

Rooftop solar PV project Three rooftop PV developers and PowerX negotiated and signed PPAs and a solar yield analysis on 30 municipal buildings was conducted

Fort Hare/ UNIDO biogas project Bio-methane transport project Feasibility Study of gas availability to support a fleet of buses is being commissioned

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality Hoed Point Sewer -Compliance with Environmental Legislation

Review of a feasibility study is in process

Amathlati Local Municipality Processing of waste water from schools Assessed the technical feasibility with 3 schools in the area

Chris Hani District Municipality Technical Expertise Evaluating embedding opportunity

Western Cape Knysna Local Municipality Sustainable waste management Scope of work for technical areas have been developed

Kwa-Zulu Natal

Umgundundlovu District Municipality Feasibility Study Engaging potential feedstock suppliers and project developers to advance AD project development

Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality Low emission development projects Four LED projects identified: aqueduct hydro, solar on top of water reservoirs, energy efficiency in wastewater, and EE audits of university buildings

ILembe District Municipality (IDM) Deployment of experts Draft MoU and a letter introducing SA-LED was sent to municipality, awaiting feedback

Limpopo Polokwane Local Municipality Deployment of experts Drafting of the scope of work for an embedding position commenced


SA-LED began the RFP process for hiring consultants during the quarter for the following projects:

PROVINCE MUNICIPALITY INTERVENTION PROGRESS

Eastern Cape Nelson Mandela Bay Debt fund support from a local finance partner and Engineering feasibility support

Solar yield analysis and building priority list received from solar developers Awaiting municipal sign off of buildings available for the project

Western Cape City of Cape Town Conduct an energy efficiency audit and identify RE potential

Data on waste water treatment works received Data to be used to develop RFP

Gauteng Ekurhuleni Support the development of an RFP and its adjudication

Rooftop PV consultant identified and contract negotiation underway


SECTION IV.


During the quarter, SA-LED’s consortium partners, Linkd Environmental

Services and Agama Pty. Ltd. continued with the LED capacity needs and

assets assessment in South African municipalities. Findings of this capacity

assessment will enable the SA-LED program to have a better understanding of

the capacity constraints and capacity development opportunities that exist.

The findings will be used to draw up a comprehensive capacity building plan

to be rolled out in Year 2.

The capacity assessment study will also function as a baseline assessment of

municipal LED capacity against which progress in providing capacity

development can be measured. Reference will be made to general capacity

building efforts as well as project specific capacity building efforts of the SA-

LED program in order to distinguish the appropriate features for tracking in

subsequent monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools.

The needs assessment will also review the implementation of capacity building

initiatives run by different agencies and the types of training programs used

by local government. The findings from this assessment will provide further

insights into the needs of local government,

identify lessons learned, and make practical

recommendations for further capacity building

interventions.

Through the LED best practices analysis, capacity

building initiatives implemented globally will be

explored and used to inform/strengthen SA-LED’s

capacity building efforts.


EMBEDDING TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

1. ILembe District Municipality (IDM) – In

principle agreement was reached that SA-LED

will support the district municipality with a technical and energy efficiency

expert to work on:

Integrating LED into municipal planning.

Conducting LED projects.


INDICATORS

Indictors 6, 7, 11, & 13

6. No. of GoSA officials trained in

various aspects of LED.

7. No. of GoSA officials

demonstrating improved LED

technical skills and knowledge.

11. No. of project proposals


gender and youth socio-economic

analysis.

13. No. of municipalities as a result of

SA-LED that incorporate principles of

LED planning into their Integrated

Development Plans.


Undertaking an energy audit of the district municipality’s waste water

treatment works with a view to propose possible energy efficiency/

process optimization interventions.

Investigate the potential to generate energy from existing WWTW.

A draft MoU and a letter introducing SA-LED was sent to the municipality

and the PMO is awaiting feedback.

2. Polokwane Local Municipality – SA-LED agreed to support the

municipality with the appointment of an Energy Efficiency and Demand

Side Management Coordinator. This position exists on the municipal

organizational structure however; due to financial constraints the position

was not filled. SA-LED is drafting the scope of work in collaboration with

the municipality, recruiting the coordinator, and signing an MoU with the

municipality. In addition, technical assistance will be provided for the

implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the

municipality.

CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMMES WITH MUNICIPALITIES

The Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) and SA-LED agreed in

principle to work together under four broad areas of collaboration: (i)

development of an energy and water efficiency building tool to help municipal

officials and building managers better understand and manage the

greenhouse gas footprints and energy use of their portfolios; (ii) to build

awareness and train municipal officials to manage energy conservation and

energy efficiency initiatives; (iii) to partner with private sector banks to

encourage green finance in the built environment; and (iv) to work together to

create a green community / eco-district project and tool in South Africa to

encourage resource efficiency at a scale larger than the building level and to

bring together public planning departments with urban developers to

facilitate a paradigm shift in urban development.

Capacity building is a key area of investment in this partnership. The focus of

the capacity building program for municipalities will be to train municipal

Councilors and officials to understand the energy, water, and greenhouse gas

footprint of their building portfolios and to develop interventions to improve

their portfolio’s performance. This will include monitoring, reporting and

verification (MRV), energy efficiency building finance, and technical energy

efficiency audits and retrofit projects. Training of councilors will be carried out

in collaboration with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA).


CAPACITY BUILDING OF PMO

SA-LED participated in a training workshop on TraiNet at the USAID Southern

Africa Offices. The training workshop was useful in helping implementing

entities understand USAID's new policies and procedures as contained in ADS

252 Visa Compliance for Exchange Visitors (i.e. visits to the US) and ADS 253

Training for Capacity Development (in-country training, third-country training

and regional training).


SECTION V.

ENABLING ENVIRONMENT The SA-LED Program recognizes that in order to play a catalytic role in scaling

the uptake of LED projects in South Africa, considerable work must be done

across legal, financial, policy, and regulatory boundaries.

Numerous government departments, existing networks, donor agencies,

development finance institutions, and private industry have done excellent

work for many years to support the same goals we are pursuing. Accordingly,

SA-LED is working to leverage these existing efforts.

SA-LED at this time is leveraging the following networks and organizations

(below in black) and is creating three forums that include both roundtables

and workshops (below in red) to inform its LED activities and to foster an

enabling environment for LED projects.


During the quarter under review a number of meetings and collaborative

efforts were undertaken to consolidate working relationships and support with

key stakeholders. There were meetings of significance held with municipalities,

provincial and national government, standards bodies, donors, networks of

city energy and utility officials, and financial institutions. In addition,

conference and forums were attended to create new and strengthen existing

networks.

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ATTENDANCE AT CONFERENCES/MEETINGS

1. MetSol 2016 Conference - SA-LED attended the MetSol2016 conference

in Berlin, Germany. The event provided useful networking opportunities

and learning about what other global cities or organizations are doing in

low emissions development as well as identifying opportunities for

collaboration. ICLEI brought together cities and businesses in workshops to

discuss urban challenges and concrete solutions that require strong city-

business cooperation. Follow up actions and opportunities for partnerships

that were identified at the conference include:

Climate–KIC: this is the biggest EU initiative on climate change which aims

to unlock climate finance for cities worldwide including the global South.

Vossloh Kiepe: an electric bus manufacturer which might be of interest to

the City of Cape Town’s electric bus project.

City twinning opportunities: A meeting was held with the Lord Mayor of

Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania, ;

, State Secretary Plenipotentiary to the Federation the European

Union and for Foreign Affairs Representation of the Free and Hanseatic

City of Hamburg; and the Honorable Consular to Tanzania

The main issues of discussion were the LED support

municipalities can get from twinning with cities in developed countries

such as the City of Hamburg. SA-LED is evaluating this type of opportunity

for South African cities.

2. USA/RSA Partnership Conference - SA-LED attended the USA/RSA

Partnership conference for Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Cool

Surfaces for a Prosperous South African Future meeting held in Pretoria.

Over the last several years, the

USA and South Africa worked

together to advance the

deployment of technologies to

support South Africa’s goals for a

prosperous and equitable future

driven by clean, efficient energy,

and cool surfaces. Representatives

from United States and South

African governments, businesses, NGOs, and universities convened to

review the accomplishments of this unique partnership and chart a

roadmap for its continued success.

3. Vehicular Biogas Working Group Meeting - SA-LED was invited to

provide assistance to the vehicular biogas working group which is part of

the national biogas platform. The working group requested that SA-LED

provide support in communicating information on uses of biogas in

ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

INDICATORS

Indictors 2 & 10

2. No. of individuals with improved project

development capacity.

10. No. of stakeholder organizations

reached with SA-LED communication

products and engagements.


vehicles widely. SA-LED is evaluating the best way to support this working

group including to liaise with the Urban Energy Network so that the

network’s platform at www.cityenergy.org.za could be utilized to support

biogas guides or training materials.

4. DEA Flagship Programs Steering Committee - SA-LED was invited to be

part of the DEA’s flagship programmes steering committee. A presentation

was made to introduce the SA-LED programme to the steering committee.

The technical assistance SA-LED seeks to provide was welcomed by the

steering committee members. All organisations indicated an interest to

collaborate with SA-LED in its work with municipalities. One of the

important follow-up meetings was proposed by the Department of

Transport who saw value in collaborating with SA-LED in the department’s

outreach to municipalities as they try to promote the adoption of non-

motorised transport (NMT) plans by municipalities. The department

indicated that it values the extensive experience and understanding of how

municipalities function displayed by the SA-LED team.

FINANCIAL AND REGULATORY ENABLING ENVIRONMENT EFFORTS

SA-LED continues to support financial and regulatory environmental efforts. In

this regard the following was undertaken in this quarter:

1. Green Guarantees: SA-LED and the Africa Private Capital Group of

USAID have been working with the USAID Development Credit Authority

(DCA) to extend a 50% partial risk guarantee to a local finance partner to

jump start the small scale renewable energy market - particularly for

rooftop photo voltaic (PV) but also for biogas and biomass projects.

Without net-metering legislation and a clear regulatory framework, the

guarantee will facilitate the first commercial loans to private developers of

rooftop PV projects in South Africa. The term sheet for the partial risk

guarantee was drafted in April and negotiated in May and June. It is

expected to be signed before the end of the fiscal year.

2. Green Finance: SA-LED and GBCSA have agreed in principle to collaborate

and synchronize their efforts to unlock commercial debt financing for

rooftop PV and energy efficiency building retrofit projects. This

collaboration will begin with a coordinated financial institution stakeholder

engagement in August after meeting with finance partners during the

GBCSA’s annual convention in July.

3. Green Infrastructure: SA-LED held a meeting with the Gauteng

Infrastructure Financing Agency (GIFA) to present its findings from

reviewing the feasibility study previously developed for Sedibeng District

Municipality financed by the Gauteng Department of Economic

Development (GDED). GIFA indicated that they were happy with SA-LED’s


conclusions from the review of the feasibility study. During the discussions

it became clear that SA-LED’s objectives in terms of the support it provides

to municipalities was similar to GIFA’s. A follow-up meeting was held to

identify opportunities for collaboration between the two organizations. It

was agreed that the organizations can first work on a project-by-project

basis with the possibility of entering into an MoU in future. It was

proposed that SA-LED and GIFA hold a follow-up meeting in early July to

go through GIFA’s project pipeline to identify potential projects of support.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION WITH DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS

SA-LED had a meeting with KfW and AfD, and there is strong interest to

partner with donors providing subsidized debt and grants to South African

low emissions development projects. A key interest of KfW’s is to attract

private and commercial investors to LED projects struggling to reach financial

close, particularly small independent power producers (IPPs). Although KfW

cannot lend directly to small project developers, and prefers to work through

banks, the new finance facility for small RE transactions will soon be launched

and this might provide an opportunity to collaborate. An agreement was

reached to have multi-year commitment to work together. AfD is keen to

explore the DCA guarantee to lower the cost of debt in the South African

market.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

As discussed above, an MoU with the Green Building Council of South Africa

was developed to provide technical assistance in the following areas:

Development of an online energy and water portfolio manager tool for

public and private sector building and portfolio managers to better

understand their buildings performance (GHG, energy, water, waste) and to

use tools to upgrade or launch conservation or energy efficiency retrofit

projects.

Development of the first green community context report to jump start

green community planning and development in South Africa.

Work with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) to

train municipal councilors and officials on LED / Green buildings and

infrastructure projects.

Co-convene a Green Financial Services Sector Workshop to partner to

facilitate the provision of green finance to property developers and

building owners to green their portfolios. Focus would be on helping the

major banks to create green building loan products to include rooftop PV

finance.


SECTION VI.

GREENHOUSE GAS MRV

SA-LED consortium partners, The Green House and ICF International, began

research on global best practice in GHG accounting and reporting at a

subnational level. In addition, SA-LED is in discussions with the Department of

Environmental Affairs’ Mitigation Monitoring & Evaluation (MRV) Unit to

identify how the program could best support the implementation of the

department’s M&E System. In discussions with DEA the department is intends

to translate sector specific guidelines it has developed into tools that can help

aggregate and integrate municipal and provincial GHG reporting into DEA’s

national M&E reporting system.


The Department of Environmental Affairs’ Climate Change Monitoring and

Evaluation Unit requested assistance from the SA-LED Program to support the

development of a simplified system to enable subnational entities (local

government and provincial government) to report their GHG emissions and

actions. The tool/system, should this technical assistance move forward, will

help streamline the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of

greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at a sub-national level. The tool will address

the information requirements of the various GHG reporting platforms,

primarily the national climate change M&E system as set out in the National

Climate Change Response White Paper (NCCRWP) as well as other

community-wide reporting platforms such as the carbonn Climate Registry

(cCR) which is the preferred platform of local municipalities. Importantly, the

GHG reporting system should be consistent and comply with international

GHG mitigation project accounting standards while meeting the needs of

national government.


Figure 4: DEA’s ideal for a local government and provincial data sharing network.

These various international standards have all adopted the Global Protocol for

Community-Scale GHG Accounting (GPC) developed by the World Resources

Institute (WRI), ICLEI, and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), in

collaboration with the World Bank, UNEP, and UN-Habitat.

Although a number of systems are available, the Department of Environmental

Affairs aims to align their reporting system with the cCR, the world´s leading

reporting platform, in order to enhance the transparency, accountability and

credibility of the climate actions of local and subnational governments. The

cCR was designed as the global response of local and subnational

governments towards MRV climate

action.

To ensure consistency in accounting

for GHG reductions at the project

level, the tool will have to aid the

reporting of the aggregate impacts of

subnational actions in addition to

reporting emissions inventories. The

national system is intended to consist

of a simple Excel based project level GHG calculation tool that could be

applied to different GHG reduction projects across all sectors. Through SA-

LED’s support, the Department of Environmental Affairs’ can leverage USAID’s

Global Climate Change Initiative’s (GCCI) Clean Energy Emission Reduction

(CLEER) Protocol and calculators which establish standardized methodologies

GREENHOUSE GAS MRV

INDICATORS

Indictors 5 & 8

5. Total projected quantity of GHG

emissions reduced or avoided as a result

of the implementation of projects

supported by SA-LED.

8. No. of new or enhanced MRV plans

produced.


and a set of calculators for determining if and how GHG reductions should be

reported for direct emissions. This will be useful in reporting municipal actions

under section seven of the cCR template - the section dedicated to the

capture of information from individual projects.

A concept note in response to DEA’s request was submitted to DEA in early

March 2016. SA-LED is currently waiting for feedback from the department on

a way forward with respect to the proposed scope of work. In the meantime

SA-LED has been consulting with both municipalities and provincial

departments on their willingness to adopt such a tool/approach.


SECTION VII.

MONITORING AND

EVALUATION

The focus this quarter was on the operationalization of the monitoring and

evaluation plan. A number of activities were undertaken during the quarter

under review.

The SA-LED reporting framework developed in the previous quarter was

implemented to track progress on the indicators and guide the development

of data collection tools, including consideration of USAID tools such as the

Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD) tool as well as the

Organization Capacity Assessment (OCA).

The SA-LED Performance Management Plan (PMP) summary sheet was refined

to align with USAID Performance Review indicators, as well as the Standard

Climate Change Indicators in Program Element 4.8: Environment.

The program is developing a case study research methodology to capture the

more subtle aspects of introducing change in municipalities in collaboration

with USAID’s M&E unit. Case studies are valuable for capturing institutional

and political dynamics that are not easily translated into straightforward

quantitative metrics, and information and the lessons learned from them will

be documented throughout the project development cycle. This information

will be disseminated in different formats tailored to various audiences through

the communication and outreach function of the program. These case studies

will also capture the co-benefits that emanate from the implementation of

LED projects. An example of a co-benefit is the creation of jobs, particularly

job opportunities for women and youth.


Introducing the Theory of Change

At the commencement of the project a Theory of Change (ToC) was not

developed hence it was difficult to establish the line of sight and relationship

between the goals, objectives and the key results areas. In preparation for the

Year 2 planning and to ensure the SA-LED project can be effectively and

efficiently monitored a process to develop the Theory of Change commenced.

During the quarter a draft TOC concept document was developed in


preparation of the planning session in July 2016. The concept document

together with the results matrix will be finalized post the planning workshop in

the last quarter.

Reviewing the PMP indicators to ensure subscription to the SMART Principles

As the SA-LED project evolved over the past year it became apparent that a

review of the indicators detailed in the PMP was required. The rationale for the

review was linked to the need to develop a TOC. An in-depth analysis of the

indicators was undertaken and based on the outcome of the planning session

the indicators will be amended accordingly. In addition, standards and

thresholds will be set for each indicator and this will be shared with the

respective partners.

Reporting Dashboard

A relational database has been developed to inform the design of Chemonics’

cloud based software tool called ChemResults, adapted from the widely used

reporting dashboard called DevResults. It will be used for consolidation and

storage of data. This will facilitate cross-referencing of indicators, as well as

identification of trends and correlations and it will provide an online

knowledge management repository and monitoring dashboard.

Baselines

The Greenhouse consortium partner has undertaken the review of best

practices in M&E of LED programs in South Africa, Africa and Latin America,

with a particular focus on the quantification of co-benefits in order to

convincingly present correlations between program results and its

interventions, including taking into account the impact on gender and youth,

as well as other socio-economic effects. The framework and case-study review

provided useful insights of how co-benefits of climate change mitigation

initiatives are addressed conceptually, and at a program and project level.

While they are dealt with in detail by some frameworks such as the Gold

Standard as sustainable development indicators, others such as GIZ

acknowledge the importance of co-benefits but defer to other frameworks for

guidance. The frameworks did not provide guidance on monitoring and

evaluating the effect of programs on youth, or any other age group while the

GEF provided the most detailed guidelines on incorporating gender into

evaluations.

The case studies provided an overview of how co-benefits have been

operationalized in terms of targets and indicators. Once again, the results of


the projects as they pertained to youth were not reflected in the monitoring

frameworks and there was very little treatment of gender. However, an

analysis of the frameworks enabled the identification of indicators that could

have been potentially disaggregated for youth and gender in order to

understand the differential effects of projects. The findings of this review will

contribute towards an synthesis of best practice and the development a set of

recommendations to inform M&E of co-benefits under SA-LED, which will be

presented in the following report.


ANNEX A. DEFINITIONS

DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY There are 47 Category C or District Municipalities

and are made up of a number of local municipalities that fall under one

district (between 3-6 local municipalities form a district council). The district

municipality coordinates development and service delivery in the entire

district.

LOCAL MUNICIPALITY There are 231 Category B or Local Municipalities and

share responsibility for service delivery with district municipalities.

METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY There are 8 Category A or Metropolitan

Municipalities representing the largest cities. These municipalities have a

population of 500,000 and above.

MRV The implementation of climate change mitigation actions in a

“measurable, reportable and verifiable” manner.

SALGA South African Local Government Association is an autonomous

association of 278 municipalities with its mandate derived from the

Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. This mandate defines SALGA as

the voice and sole representative of local government. SALGA interfaces with

parliament, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), cabinet, as well as

provincial legislatures.

V-LED Vertical integration of Low Emissions Development involves cross-

cutting dialogue and cooperation across sectors and different tiers of

government.

V-NAMA refers to vertically integrated nationally appropriate mitigation

action as conceptualized by GIZ and has since been adopted by the UNFCCC

as a globally accepted term for local mitigation action.

WHEELING energy refers to the transfer of electrical power from one utility to

another using the electrical grid – usually from an area with surplus to areas of

higher demand. A NERSA trading license is required to wheel power via the

existing transmission and distribution infrastructure.


ANNEX B. MILESTONES AND INDICATORS

EXHIBIT A. SUMMARY OF PROGRESS ON 2016 MILESTONES1

ACTIVITY/MILESTONE PROGRESS: 1 APRIL – 30 JUNE 2016

OBJECTIVE 1: PROGRAM YEAR 1 MILESTONES

1. At least 1 MOU signed within 9 months for SA-LED to

provide technical assistance for a LED project(s)2

An MoU with Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality to develop energy efficiency and rooftop PV

projects was signed in mid-February 2016. Three letters of engagement have been signed.

2. At least 5 additional projects identified, assessed, and

supported with project development assistance (including

1 project proposal and analyses completed)

Four additional projects were identified in EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. Four additional projects

were identified in the Eastern Cape Province. This bring the total to 15 projects identified and 6 projects

supported to date.

3. The development of the following deliverables designed

to institutionally scale the program from October 2016

onwards:

Municipal Engagement Methodology (MEM) To be developed in August after: 1) experience has been gained working with municipalities on LED

project implementation; 2) experience has been gained building LED capacity in municipalities; and 3)

research data has been gathered and analyzed from the LED capacity and needs assessment in

municipalities study.

National Cooperative Mechanism (NCM) To be formally developed in July/August after experience with national government efforts to support

LED projects. Research from Consortium Partners will also influence the development of the NCM from

global best practice. In the meantime, the SA-LED Advisory Committee will play the primary role in

guiding SA-LED on how best to leverage national GoSA departments to affect change in and support

LED project activities at municipal level. The SA-LED team will also be supporting various

intergovernmental efforts led by the National Treasury to jump start LED projects at local level as well as

1 These are milestones developed from those initially in the USAID RFP and the subsequent Chemonics proposal prior to any work in the South Africa LED market, with the intention to be used as

illustrative measures of progress during Year 1. 2 The text of this milestone has been changed to be more aligned with the wording of the contract; “and financial advisory assistance” has been removed. The contract states: Signed memorandum of

agreement for the development of at least one (1) LED project in South Africa within the first nine (9) months of the award. (I.E. BY 19TH FEBRUARY, 2016)



leveraging DEA’s flagship program.

LED Finance Framework (LFF) During the quarter, SA-LED facilitated an agreement between the Development Credit Authority (DCA)

of USAID and a local facility to create a US$ 200 million (R 3 billion) debt facility to support the creation

of a market in South Africa for debt provided to rooftop PV developers. Historically, commercial debt

has only been provided to building owners with asset-backed finance. A DCA 50% partial risk guarantee

is encouraging a market for rooftop PV project finance despite the lack of net metering legislation.

The LED Finance framework has not yet been developed but could be a series of facilities like this first

one detailed above or it could be a framework for collaboration between commercial banks,

development finance institutions, and international funds specializing in green or LED investments. It is

likely that we will partner with the DBSA, the IDC, or National Treasury to create such an umbrella fund

or mechanism to streamline the financing of LED projects at municipal level. Our research partners, DNA

Economics and ICF International, will also conduct research on global and local best practice that will

also inform the LFF.

Project Development Process Map Consortium partner, The Green House, has developed this Process Map as part of the “Key Blockages in

the LED project Development Cycle” study.

Prioritized List of Projects to Roll out Technical Assistance at scale 10 projects were shortlisted in November 2015. The experience with these projects will inform how we

prioritize the selection of projects from October 2016 onwards. In addition, a formal project selection

matrix will be developed and will be used to select projects to support from October 2016 onwards.

LED Training Materials, Manuals, Tools, and Online Resources focused

on project developers

The SA-LED team will develop a few training manuals and tools as part of the capacity building, LED

project implementation, and research work that will be conducted in the first half of 2016. However, the

majority of the materials and tools will be developed in the last quarter of 2016 for rollout to a larger

municipal audience in 2017. The cityenergy.org.za website or Climatelinks.org website could serve as

the repository for LED training materials until we receive feedback from stakeholders as to what is a

more practical location for municipal officials. The Project Developer’s workshops and research will also

inform the development of training materials and tools.

Recruit LED Peers and Consultants to Embed in Municipal Partners to

institutionalize LED planning and budgeting and build LED

organizational capacity

A second call for Expressions of Interest for consultants and individuals to support implementation of

the SA-LED program was issued to the market in May. The call closes on 19 August 2016.



4. Establish SA-LED Communications, M&E and Media plans,

guidelines, information packs targeted at project

developers

Communication and M&E plans were developed in the quarter ending December 31st 2015 and will be

updated once the LED Project Developer Manual has been created in September.

OBJECTIVE 2: PROGRAM YEAR 1 MILESTONES

5. (At least) 1 technical specialist embedded in relevant

office to provide both capacity development and technical

project implementation support

As part of our capacity building efforts in our learning by doing period from February to June 2016, at

least one technical specialist will be embedded with one of our partner municipalities. Mbombela

Municipality, Polokwane, and the Eastern Cape Provincial government have been identified as suitable

partners for such placements.

6. Roundtable constituted and convened biannually starting

in project Quarter 3

A project developer's roundtable was held in December 2015 and an Academic and NGO roundtable of

LED experts was held in March 2016 at the Sustainability Institute of the University of Stellenbosch. SA-

LED plans two additional roundtables in 2016: a finance roundtable of LED investors (anticipated in

August/September 2016) and a second project developer roundtable (October 2016). It is envisioned

that future roundtables will be constituted to share components of the project developer’s guide and to

support efforts to integrate LED into Integrated Development Planning (IDP).

7. A minimum of 3 LED technical products focused on

capacity building developed and disseminated (toolkits,

manuals, training modules, screening matrices, etc.)

At this time, the SA-LED team envisions the technical products to include a project development

component of the Municipal Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Manual that was developed by

Sustainable Energy Africa in 2009 and an easy to use poster depicting the project development cycle.

8. Stakeholder, Communications and M&E plans updated to

reflect outcomes of GoSA workshops targeted at GoSA

capacity building

Once capacity development and workshop activities commence, updating of plans will take place.

9. Deploy short term GHG monitoring expertise to GoSA

departments, municipalities, or developers

Discussions have been held with DEA regarding support to develop a simplified system to enable

subnational entities to report their GHG emissions and actions. During the upcoming quarter, SA-LED

and DEA will confirm the support that is required.

10. Develop a component of the LED manual detailing best

practice in LED project support from a national and

provincial perspective covering tendering, finance,

monitoring, and regulatory/policy issues

Best practice research and practical experience unblocking LED projects, issuing LED tenders, and

helping LED projects secure finance will inform the component(s) developed in August-September

2016.


EXHIBIT B. SA-LED PROGRAM INDICATORS3

KEY RESULT AREA # INDICATOR LOP

TARGET ANNUAL TARGET FY 2016

YTD

PROGRESS QUARTERLY PROGRESS

OBJECTIVE 1: STRENGTHEN PUBLIC SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY

KRA 1.1 Innovative LED projects

identified, supported, and facilitated 1

Technical assistance provided to

LED projects. 20

6; Project Development

Process Map

15 Projects

identified

(pgs. 8 - 15)

8 additional projects

identified in this quarter

KRA 1.2 Capacities of public and private

sectors to develop fundable LED projects

in strategic sectors strengthened

2

LED project development of

supported organizations

improved.

20 Prioritized list of project to

roll out TA at scale

15 Projects

identified

(pgs. 8 - 15)

8 additional projects

identified in this quarter

KRA 1.3 Resources from development

finance institutions and other public and

private sector finance leveraged

3

Value of funds mobilized to

support LED project development

with USG assistance.

US $30 M LED Finance Framework

Facilitated

US$ 200

million debt

facility to

support

rooftop PV

projects

(pg. 12)

Facilitated US$ 200 million

debt facility to support

rooftop PV projects

(pg. 12)

KRA 1.4 Reduced emissions potential in

strategic sectors demonstrated

4 Emissions potential analyses

completed. 30 - -

5

Projected quantity of GHG

emissions reduced or avoided

through SA-LED support.

100,000

tons - -

OBJECTIVE 2: INCREASE PUBLIC SECTOR CORE COMPETENCIES THROUGH TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES

3 The Program is in a research and analysis phase until 1 October 2016 - at which time annual program indicators will be determined as the SA-LED team will then have a better understanding of the

LED landscape and where SA-LED can make the most impact.




YTD


KRA 2.1 Technical skills and strategic

knowledge within relevant national,

provincial, or municipal government

departments and entities developed

6 Number of GoSA officials

trained in LED. 130

1 technical specialist

embedded in relevant office - -

7

Number of GoSA officials

demonstrating improved

technical skills and knowledge

related to LED (outcome).

100

Recruit LED

specialists/consultants to

embed with municipal

partners4

- -

KRA 2.2 GoSA skills to monitor, report,

and communicate on GHG emissions

improved

8

Number of new or enhanced

monitoring, reporting, and

verification (MRV) plans

produced.

25

Deploy short-term GHG

monitoring expertise to GoSA

departments,, municipalities,

or developers

- -

KRA 2.3 Key stakeholder knowledge and

awareness for low emission technologies

and implementation strategies improved

9 Number of communication

products produced by SA-LED 50

Establish SA-LED

communications & media

plans, guidelines, and

information packs for project

developers

- -

10

Number of stakeholder

organizations reached through

communication products and

engagements.

100 235 -

KRA 2.4 Knowledge and awareness of the

relationship between economic, gender,

and youth implications of LED increased

11

Number of project proposals


a gender and/or other socio-

demographic analysis as part of

their development process.

20 - -

4 These LED specialists will work with municipal officials and impart knowledge and skills regarding LED to these officials as they work with them.




YTD


KRA 2.5 Technical products to facilitate

GoSA development and management of

LED developed

12

Number of technical products

developed to facilitate GoSA

development and management of

LED.

8

3 LED technical products

focused on capacity building

developed and disseminated;

a component of the LED

manual detailing best practice

in LED project support

- -

KRA 2.6 Public planning for LED

improved 13

Number of municipalities that

incorporate principles of LED

planning in their IDP’s and

allocate budget to LED-related

activities as a result of SA-LED

assistance.

10 - -

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